adrianh

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   by adrianh 13y ago

   Hehe, yeah, that sentence doesn't sound particularly simple. :-) Check out the code snippets I linked to from that blog post. It's pretty easy, I promise -- the tricky thing is just figuring out the various APIs.
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   Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup(holovaty.com)

   404 points by adrianh 13y ago|217 comments
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   by adrianh 13y ago

   You can use S3's CORS support to allow your users to upload directly to S3 without even touching your server. Downside is that it can be hard to debug and it requires your users to use JavaScript -- but otherwise it's a big win. See http:/
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   by adrianh 13y ago

   Hey -- I didn't spend much time exploring SVG, to be honest. It could very well be faster! And you're right that it would be much better on retina screens. I've had it on my to-do list to make the canvas implementation take the device pixel
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   by adrianh 13y ago

   Ahh, cool -- got it. Thanks!
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   by adrianh 13y ago

   Hey, thanks for the feedback! What were you doing with Soundslice when it felt slow -- were you zoomed out (such that there were a ton of annotations visible on the page)? Or was it just slow in general, even when it was zoomed in?
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   In defense of <canvas>(holovaty.com)

   294 points by adrianh 13y ago|61 comments
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   by adrianh 14y ago

   This is exactly the problem we're solving with Soundslice: http://www.soundslice.com/ It syncs tabs with real audio recordings so that you get the usability of tab plus the rhythm and phrasing cues from the real recording.
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   by adrianh 14y ago

   For folks who don't know the Django world: Malcolm was one of the most prolific Django contributors. If you use Django, you use code he wrote. I wrote a remembrance here: http://www.holovaty.com/writing/malcolm/
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    by adrianh 14y ago

    Let me know if you guys have any questions about the HTML5 / JavaScript stuff in here.
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    by adrianh 14y ago

    Yes, I don't mess around or BS on my blog. Take it at face value, cause that's how I meant it. I'd been working on EveryBlock full-time for five years, and I'd maintained chicagocrime.org (the precursor) for two years before that, so I was
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    by adrianh 14y ago

    I've been working on Soundslice full time since I left EveryBlock at the end of August 2012: http://www.soundslice.com/ (blog post: http://www.holovaty.com/writing/goodbye-everyblock/ ) It has nothing to do with local news or journalism
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    by adrianh 14y ago

    I am super bummed about this. :-( I wrote some thoughts on my blog: http://www.holovaty.com/writing/rip-everyblock/ Adrian (EveryBlock founder)
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    by adrianh 14y ago

    Ah, thanks -- done.
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    by adrianh 14y ago

    Sorry about that -- try changing "scrolling" from Autoscroll to Paged, and that should fix it.
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    by adrianh 14y ago

    I have a preventDefault in there already, and it's still happening. :-/
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    by adrianh 14y ago

    Hey, thanks for subscribing, and for the kind words! I've transcribed a bunch of my own stuff and plan on doing more in the coming weeks (it's a win/win -- good marketing for Soundslice and people get to learn the arrangements). And, yes,
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    by adrianh 14y ago

    Glad I could help! :-D
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    by adrianh 14y ago

    Thank you! :-) How much does the lack of a share button prevent you from "manually" sending the link to friends via Twitter/Facebook by copying and pasting? (I'm asking honestly -- and I'd like to prevent the site from getting gunked up wit
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    by adrianh 14y ago

    This is a great point. There's a (low) threshold on how many annotations need to be in a song before it shows up in "Latest by others" -- maybe a good quick fix would be to raise that.
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    by adrianh 14y ago

    Thanks! There's nothing stopping people from adding lyrics as "basic track" annotations, aside from the awkward question of "do I annotate each word separately, or phrases?" The site doesn't require email verification to start using it... W
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    by adrianh 14y ago

    Thank you! Yes, a few of the videos have chords marked on tab tracks (e.g., "Chord fingering" on http://www.soundslice.com/yt/Y6ti5f-LHp4/ ) but I'm planning to add a first-class chord track type. To exit looping mode, just press Pause? Or
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    by adrianh 14y ago

    Thank you! Yes, standard notation is on the to-do list. It's obviously much more complicated than tabs, so I opted not to do it for launch. Is the console error happening consistently for certain videos, or is it sporadic?
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    by adrianh 14y ago

    Thanks! I definitely plan to add sheet music as a track type. It's significantly more complicated than tabs, so it didn't make it for launch -- but I'd love to serve all my musician brothers instead of just guitarists. :-)
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    by adrianh 14y ago

    Thanks for the feedback! Yes, coming up with the optimal initial zoom level is a tricky compromise. Still need to tweak it.
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    by adrianh 14y ago

    Thanks! Glad you found the scroll type preferences. For more, check out the tutorial (annotated on Soundslice, naturally): http://www.soundslice.com/yt/8zgsQ9qgA7s/ (Edit) You might also try zooming out a wee bit so that the notes don't g
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    Show HN: Soundslice – YouTube + synced guitar tabs + HTML5(soundslice.com)

    492 points by adrianh 14y ago|124 comments
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    Announcing EveryBlock’s new maps(blog.everyblock.com)

    1 points by adrianh 14y ago|0 comments
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    by adrianh 14y ago

    Yeah, you're totally right -- that was a lame analogy. I've changed it. My only excuse is that I posted it late at night. :-)
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    by adrianh 14y ago

    Actually I checked with the dictionary before posting, because I had that same concern. (I was a newspaper copyeditor for a while.) Postmortem can mean "any analysis following an event." It's not just for death.